Curriculum Committee Minutes
October 24, 2002
Present: Anderson-Connelly, Barry, Beck, Clark, Goldstein, Greene, Hale, Jasinski, Mehlhaff,
Rocigliano, Rousslang, Sable, Sackman, Tomhave, Weinman Jagosh.
Meeting called to order 8:03 AM by the Chair.
Dean Barry circulated a form that included class schedules for all Faculty members of the
Committee to facilitate scheduling of future sub-committee meetings.
MSP to defer the Environmental Studies Program review to the 2003-04 academic year.
MSP to defer the Economics Department review to the 2003-04 academic year.
MSP to defer the Asian Studies Program review to the 2003-04 academic year.
MSP to approve the following courses submitted for inclusion in the Scholarly and
Creative Inquiry Core area:
• Utopia/Dystopia (Breitenbach)
• Salsa, Samba, and Soccer (Lear)
• Industrial Economics and Sustainability (Sable)
• Chinese Painting in the West (Hong)
• The Broken Brain (Hannaford)
• Evolution and Creationism in the US (Largent)
• The Constitution in Crisis Times (Sousa)
• Modernization and Social Change (Kontogeorgopoulus)
• Religion in Philosophy and Literature (Stern)
MSP to approve the following courses submitted for inclusion in the Writing and Rhetoric
Core area:
• Trauma and Memory (Kile)
• Science in the News (Tullis)
• Rhetoric of Adventure (Buescher)
• Ideas and Arguments on Stage (Greenfield)
Dean Barry suggested that some of the subcommittees be reduced in size, now that the bulk of
the course proposals for inclusion in the new Core rubrics have been considered; this was
acknowledged and agreed to by those present.
MSP to include a Fall version of the ILACA Study Abroad program in Granada, Spain. This
would be in addition to the long-standing Spring semester program, and would be identical to that
program, except for the requirement that a faculty member from a Pacific Northwest member
institution be a part of the on-site faculty. This passed, following a brief discussion of the financial
or enrollment implications of this addition.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 AM.
Respectfully submitted,
Barry Goldstein